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The Inner Nature of ManandLife Between Death and Rebirth

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The Inner Nature of Man and Life Between Death and Rebirth

Rudolf Steiner Archive Document

Lectures Section

Given just before the start of World War I, Rudolf Steiner here describes
the panoramic reality of the spiritual worlds encountered by human beings
after death. He speaks of the joys and sufferings experienced in those
worlds by people of different characters, the vision of the "ideal human
being" that souls experience, the cosmic midnight hour, the deeper causes
behind such phenomena as materialism and criminality, the process leading
to rebirth in the world of the senses, and why, on earth, we must lose our
direct perception of the spiritual worlds. He also describes some of the
methods through which direct perception of the worlds of soul and spirit
can be developed.

By Rudolf Steiner

Bn 153, GA 153

Given just before the start of World War I, Rudolf Steiner here describes
the panoramic reality of the spiritual worlds encountered by human beings
after death. He speaks of the joys and sufferings experienced in those
worlds by people of different characters, the vision of the “ideal
human being” that souls experience, the cosmic midnight hour, the
deeper causes behind such phenomena as materialism and criminality, the
process leading to rebirth in the world of the senses, and why, on earth,
we must lose our direct perception of the spiritual worlds. He also
describes some of the methods through which direct perception of the
worlds of soul and spirit can be developed.

These six lectures given by Rudolf Steiner at Vienna, Austria in April
of 1914, are from the lecture series entitled,
The Inner Being of Man and Life Between Death and Rebirth.
They were published in German as,
Inneres Wesen des Menschen und Leben Zwischen Tod und Neuer Geburt.
Printed for Members of the School
of Spiritual Science, Goetheanum, Class I, no
person is held qualified to form a judgement on the contents of this
work, who has not acquired — through the School itself or in an
equivalent manner recognised by the School — the requisite
preliminary knowledge. Other opinions will be disregarded; the
authors decline to take them as a basis for discussion.

This lecture series is presented here with the kind permission
of the Rudolf Steiner Nachlassverwaltung, Dornach, Switzerland.
From Bn 153, GA 153.